Student Activities
HONOR
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SOCIETIES
There are two types of honor
societies in the college.
The
first
consists of those organizations that are comparatively general in char-
and not confined
any department or section of college life. who meet the high standards of excellence required in scholarship and character. There have been established on the campus local chapters of the following national organizaKappa Delta Pi, Alpha Kappa Gamma, and Alpha Phi Sigma. tions: The second type includes a number of societies which place most emphasis on special fields. There have been established on the campus four of these national honor societies: Pi Gamma Mu, Sigma Pi Rho, Beta Pi Theta, and Pi Kappa Delta. Of this type also are the local organizations, Gamma Psi and Beorc Eh Thorn. acter
They are open
Kappa Delta Pi broad sense.
to
to all students
Its
is
a national honor society in education in the
membership
consists of students
interested in the
activities of the teaching profession including all fields.
ship in this organization years,
is
The member-
confined to students of the Junior and Senior
whose scholarship ranks
in the
upper fourth of that of the
stu-
dent body.
The Beta Epsilon Chapter 1928.
It
of
Kappa Delta Pi was organized in Kappa Omega, a local honor
represents the development of Pi
society founded in 1918 in response to a need felt
by the faculty and
students for an organization through which scholarship, character, and
Ten years later it was merged into which emphasized the qualities recognized by Pi Kappa Omega with an additional emphasis on a professional outlook as broad as the college itself in all of its departments and activities. service might be given recognition.
Kappa Delta
Pi,
Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honor
society for leadership,
was
organized in 1928. It represents the merging of local societies which had been founded in order to bring together groups of representative students and faculty members, whose purpose was to foster high ideals and standards of leadership. Alpha Delta Rho, organized in 1925, became the Joan Circle of Alpha Kappa Gamma and was one of the Its field of work is the promocharter members of the organization. tion of desirably coordination of various activities and interests of the college.
Alpha Phi Sigma is an honorary society confined to A grade teachers colleges. Its membership is confined to students of high scholValedictorians and salutatorians of high schools are astic rating.